Harry who?

At the age of eighteen, he made his Broadway debut with a fearless performance in Equus, earning him the Gypsy of the Year award. For footage of his performance at the annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS "Gypsy of the Year" show--which is a musical review starring casts of currently running shows, musical or otherwise, doing parodies of their shows--go here. Alas, his follow spot is too bright for amateur video, so he's mostly washed out, but you'll get the idea.

Now twenty-one, this young man, who had never before sung or danced professionally, let alone on Broadway, is playing the lead role in the 50th anniversary revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. While the show is getting mixed reviews, Radcliffe himself has gotten mostly terrific notices. (And DAMN, Skippy --what a spectacular American accent!)

I reiterate: this is a man who has *never sung or danced professionally before taking on this role*. He took singing and dancing lessons before and during rehearsals to up his game.

WORK IT, BABY.








ETMOTHERFUCKINA: GOOD GOD. From what I understand, the show downplays his dancing so that *this* can happen later in the show and blow the audience away:

Advantage: Radcliffe.

Go here for a delightful interview with him that's interspersed with footage of singing and dancing galore from a preview performance.

ETAMOREA: John Larroquette and Daniel doing "Grand Old Ivy," interspersed with a brief interview with Larroquette - but check the choreography where they use the, um, height difference to comic effect. (Daniel continues to be ATHLETIC LIEK WOAH)

This guy should stick to the stage, where he is a REVELATION--and I don't mean because he performed completely naked for a significant period of time Equus.

(For the prurient among us [read: all of us], here are three promo photos. For them as not acquainted with the play, the pics may be, uh, surprising.)

MOAR ETA: GUH.



ETA AGAIN AND AGAIN:

If you want to buy tickets, go to the show's website. Except for a few dates in July, when he will be on promotion tour for the final Harry Potter film, Radcliffe is signed for the usual eight shows a week until early 2012. I'm assuming that the world will put off ending until after he leaves.

So - two things.

Those of you who saw my earlier post about Daniel Radcliffe's just-opened musical theater debut on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (as well as a few pics from his dramatic Broadway debut in Equus in 2008), you should probably go back and look at the post again, because I added more pics and more video. PHWOAR. And DAYUM.

The other thing is that I've spent today hunting down what little fanfiction I've written and uploading it to AO3. I'm not much of a fanfiction writer--more of a consumer--but, by searching the old Yuletide archive, and wracking my brain about random memes and things on lj, and thinking about the various people I can blame for Shacks and Elves and Pirates, I've imported or copy/pasted eight stories today (with two more waiting to be cleaned up because the html from the challenges doesn't work in a simple copy/paste).

I'm vastly amused that, for all that I'm a slash fan, of the ten stories I can remember writing thus far, nine are gen. The only sex scene I've ever written is a three-way with a heterosexual couple and a gay man. Talk about jumping in with both feet. WTF I don't even.

So, this "subscribe to me!" thing that's going around--I can't promise updates of any fanfiction except once a year at Yuletide time, and possibly once in a blue moon other than that. That said, I'm at tzikeh.

Stories already posted are in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Quantum Leap; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Joan of Arcadia; BBC Sherlock; White Collar; 1776; and Invisible Man (one story per fandom).

Fandoms in the immediate queue include another Quantum Leap story (that will make no sense at all unless you've read all of the first 100 shack stories), and a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead shack story (which doesn't require any previous shack-story knowledge).

(ETA: And a Man from U.N.C.L.E. shack story that I'd forgotten about until *just now when Cesca commented here*. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Of *course* it's the shack stories that can't be imported or easily copy/pasted. Naturally.)

So, yeah.

In happy news, though, I'd totally forgotten about the QL Yuletide story I put up today, and upon rereading, I find I'm kinda proud of it!